2nd Semester Week 2 Vocabulary Quiz (Monday, February 23)
1. verse-a poem or piece of poetry
2. stanza-a verse
3. tone-the way the author feels
4. alliteration-the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter,
5. imagery-figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.
6. repetition-the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
7. personification-giving human traits to animal or plant
8. hyperbole-obvious and intentional exaggeration
9. onomatopoeia-the proccess of wich writing the word is the same way it sounds ex: zoom,zip,& thump
10. metaphor-a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
11. simile-an instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.

Week 17 Vocabulary Quiz (Friday, January 16)
1. fact-something that can be proven
2. opinion-your own personal idea or thought
3. persuade-to convience
4. source-were info came from
5. excerpt-a small part from a bigger thing
6. passage-a small summary
7. pamphlet-brojure or a booklet giving information
8. implies-to go together
9. support-a piece(s) of something proves another thing
10. Internet keywords-main idea or thought
11. keyword entry-enter a key word
12. begin an online search-research

Week 15 Vocabulary and Spelling Quiz (Friday, December 12)
Spelling
1. your
2. you're
3.there
4. their
5. they're

Vocabulary
6. caption-a sentence wich explians a picture or idea
7. factual report-a paper(s) that is full of facts
8. book review-review a book
9. business letter (Dear Sir or Madam:)-to give a idea or express your thoughts about a business descision
10. personal letter (Dear Bella,)-to greet
11. personal narrative-your own

Week 14 Vocabulary Quiz (Friday, December 5)
1. news magazine-a magazine of recent dramas or (news)
2. editorial page-a page were people who print or work for the paper can give their oppinion
3. editorial-some oone who edits
4. letter to the editor-a letter to a person that edits something
5. business news-news about a recent thing in a business
6. classified advertisements-a business advertising in certain places
7. local news-recent happenings
8. front page-the biggest stories
9. opinion page-people who read the paper can give their own opinion


Week 12 Vocabulary Quiz (Friday, November 21)
1. expository writing-long

(patterns of organization)
2. chronological order-were the place is
3. spatial order-from time and place
4. compare and contrast-to compare how 2 things are alike and different
5. comparison-two things are alike
6. order of importance-to put things in order of how important they are
7. cause and effect-the thing that happen and the thing that caused it to happen
8. problem and solution-a difficultty and a way to solve it

Week 11 Vocabulary Quiz (Thursday, November 13)
1. historical fiction-happened in history
2. topic sentence-your main sentence in the intro of a report or essay
3. thesis statement-your statement about the theme
4. supporting detail-details supporting a main idea
5. evidence-something that proves another
6.aliteration
8. inform-to give information
9. novel-a book

Week 4 Vocabulary Quiz (Friday, September 26)
1. first person narrator-first person saying
2. third person narrator-some one speaking in third person
3. plot-events in a story
4. autobiography / autobiographies-a person writing about their own life
5. biography / biographies-a person writing about another ones life
6. support-some thing(s) proves another
7. quotation-something someone said

Week 3 Vocabulary Quiz (Friday, September 19)
1. short story-a short story
2. myth-something that is passed down to generation to generation but may or may not be true
3. theme-the lesson or saying of the story
4. plot-evnets in a stroy
5. qualities-something unique
6. first person-saying it ur self
7. third person-
8. narrator-
9. fiction-
10. fictional

Week 2 Vocabulary Quiz (Friday, September 12)
characteristics of fiction
1 character-some one in a story
2 climax-the place where a big problem is solved
3 conflict-a problem
4 events-things that happen in a story